SYDNEY, Australia (AP) -- Russell Crowe says his rugby league club's cheerleading squad is being cut because skimpily clad cheerleaders detract from the game and make spectators uncomfortable.

The Oscar-winning actor, who is part-owner in the South Sydney Rabbitohs club, said the club had become concerned that the cheerleaders -- whose uniform includes fishnet stockings and tasseled miniskirts in the white, green and red team colors -- were inappropriate entertainment.

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"It makes women uncomfortable and it makes blokes who take their son to the football also uncomfortable," Crowe was quoted as saying in News Ltd. newspapers Friday.

"We examined game day and wanted to contemporize and make the focus (on) football," he said.

A team of percussionists will replace the cheerleaders, the club announced this week. The club's Web site invited drummers to audition.

Crowe, a longtime Rabbitohs supporter, helped save the club from obscurity a few years ago before buying a major stake in 2006.

He won an Oscar in 2001 for "Gladiator." The 42-year-old actor has also received Oscar nominations for "The Insider" and "A Beautiful Mind."

A few months after he stole Meg Ryan from Dennis Quaid, Crowe spoke on stage here in the States and told the dudes out in the audience to hold onto their lady companions because he might snatch one of them away.

I don't have a problem with it. Cheerleaders take attention from the football game and encourage young girls to get gangbanged by the entire team while one of the backup running backs snorts coke out of their asses. Anytime I go to a NFL game with someone who doesn't care about football, all they talk about is the cheerleaders. I mean who cares, there is a time and places for hot broads, but at an NFL football game or sports match shouldn't be one of them.

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